Laurel to North Arlington (Marymount)

@huskerdont 179496 wrote:

I don’t know the Laurel area, but if there’s a way for you to get to the CCT, I’d take that to the towpath and take Chain Bridge to Glebe. (Assuming you can deal with the 41st St. climb). Beast of a commute; good luck.

Getting to CCT would be tough, unless he wanted to venture out through Olney following the ICC trail…. Oh wait, most of it doesn’t exist! Alternatively, he could take the GBT….. Oh wait, that’s shut down for the Purple Line construction…….

ebubar, you’re route is probably what I would recommend. You could look at taking Gallatin and Galloway through Fort Totten and up to the CCT at Van Ness. That adds some hills and more traffic, and I doubt that would increase your commute times. You could also look at taking the ART down to Benning, jump over the Anacostia and cut down to E Capitol.

@huskerdont 179496 wrote:

I don’t know the Laurel area, but if there’s a way for you to get to the CCT, I’d take that to the towpath and take Chain Bridge to Glebe. (Assuming you can deal with the 41st St. climb). Beast of a commute; good luck.

Definitely no good way to get to the CCT from Laurel. I’d recommend going the way you go, Konterra, Route 1 sidepath to Rhode Island cut through, then when you get to Hyattsville, take the ART, it will cut off a lot of hills and save you time overall. Once you get to Nats Stadium go around and take Maine Ave. to Jefferson Memorial, then I’d cross the bridge into VA and take the MVT up.

P.S. I think your e-bike choice is terrible! You can do that commute everyday without it, it’s only 50 miles a day. Trust me, I know:)

@ebubar 179514 wrote:

I can do it without an ebike, but perhaps not in a reasonable amount of time :p.

Ok, I must admit that I considered an e-bike as an option to do my 44 mi. round trip daily commute, but I never ended up doing it. I just budgeted in the time, but it was tough. My long commute was from NW DC to Laurel. Your commute is essentially the opposite direction that mine was, with some additional distance added getting up the Custiss.

I’m not sure you should take advice from anyone, if you do this commute consistently, you will be a stud. Just try not to e-bike it every day.

You could also try going early morning and take your bike on metro (before 7 am) for part of the trip. Or stash bikes on both ends of your metro trip, or get a folding bike. You also carpool into DC with your bike in the car and then bike the rest of the way. You could do the alternating driving thing, where you drive to work one day then bike home and alternate. You could ride your bike to a Zipcar and then drive the rest of the way home (night rates are cheap with Zip) and then do the oposite the next day. Also, now that Uber and Lyft have pool options, they’ve gotten a lot cheaper, so it could be a viable option for connecting you from work to metro and metro to home, if you only had a bike on one leg of the metro trip. Also, don’t forget the MARC, it is a good way to get from Laurel to Union Station, then you could ride from there to work. Also Metro and MARC have bike locker options that are fairly affordable, if leaving a bike at metro is a problem for you.

@ebubar 179521 wrote:

All good ideas! I do have the option to carpool with my other half to her office at UMD and bike from there. That’s a more manageable 30 mile roundtrip, which works well. But if I can ebike in similar time without any time in the car, i’d like that option

I just can’t get myself to do the e-bike thing. It doesn’t really make sense, I know. If I’m willing to drive or metro part of the way on a mega-commute, why am I not willing to e-bike the whole way? I guess I like being able to Strava my rides without an asterisk. Maybe I fear the day that all bike trails just become roads for e-bikes and regular cyclists are shoved off to the shoulder of the trail. Surely that’s already begining to happen in some places around here. Please, e-bike responsibly.

@josh 179515 wrote:

I don’t have much to contribute other than to request that you’re on my FS team this winter.

Sorry not sorry, but he’s Team Maryland, so he stays with us.

Alternatively, Lynn, you, and he are a team of 3 versus all the rest of the teams (of 10-12 members). Y’all would have a fighting chance, if not win

If you go through Beltsville, be extra careful of the 4way stop on Rhode Island and Sellman. As stupid as RI and Route 1 in Beltsville is, that intersection North of it is worse

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